Setting the stage for debate over whether Idris Elba is “too street” to play Snake Plissken—a trick question, because there is no such thing—according to The Hollywood Reporter Luther creator Neil Cross has been hired to script the remake of John Carpenter’s 1981 dystopian action classic Escape From New York. Plans for a remake have been bouncing around for nearly a decade now; after being abandoned by New Line in 2011, the project was picked up again by producer Joel Silver in 2013, and has since fallen into the hands of Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman, two ex-employees of Silver’s who started their own company last year, so they totally get the whole “rogue” thing.